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LOINC. 5639-0, 5640-8, 15120-9, 56478-1. Blood alcohol content ( BAC ), also called blood alcohol concentration or blood alcohol level, is a measurement of alcohol intoxication used for legal or medical purposes. [ 1] BAC is expressed as mass of alcohol per volume of blood.
Cleveland Clinic. / 41.502595; -81.621066. Cleveland Clinic is an American nonprofit academic medical center based in Cleveland, Ohio. [ 2] Owned and operated by the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, an Ohio nonprofit corporation, Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 by a group of faculty and alumni from the Case Western Reserve University School of ...
George Washington Crile, MD, one of the four founders. The Cleveland Clinic had its roots in the Lakeside Unit, [1] [2] an American First World War medical-surgical unit consisting of volunteers from Cleveland's Western Reserve University Lakeside Hospital, (now part of the University Hospitals medical system), organized and led by George W. Crile, MD the hospital's chief of surgery.
Michael Fredric Roizen (born January 7, 1946) is an American anesthesiologist and internist, an award-winning author, and the chief wellness officer at the Cleveland Clinic. Roizen became famous for developing the RealAge concept and has authored or coauthored five number-one New York Times best sellers. Roizen completed a tour of duty in the ...
Alcoholic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is a disease in which the long-term consumption of alcohol leads to heart failure. [ 1] ACM is a type of dilated cardiomyopathy. The heart is unable to pump blood efficiently, leading to heart failure. It can affect other parts of the body if the heart failure is severe. It is most common in males between the ages ...
Alcohol (also known as ethanol) has a number of effects on health. Short-term effects of alcohol consumption include intoxication and dehydration. Long-term effects of alcohol include changes in the metabolism of the liver and brain, several types of cancer and alcohol use disorder. [ 1] Alcohol intoxication affects the brain, causing slurred ...
Cleveland Clinic: Cleveland: Cuyahoga: 1290 [3] x 1921 – Cleveland Clinic Akron General: Akron: Summit: 485 [3] Level I 1915 Peoples Hospital Cleveland Clinic Akron General Lodi Hospital Lodi: Medina: 20 [3] x 1920 Lodi Sanitarium Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital Avon: Lorain: 126 [3] x 2016 [a] – Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital for ...
Chris Prewitt, an Ohio native, husband and father, learned that the hard way when he had a heart attack at the age of 48. That's more than a decade before the average age of a first heart attack ...